'We've made too much progress to slow down': tracking John Lewis's long fight

Documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble traces the life and influence of the civil rights leader and congressman in his 60-plus year fight for racial equality

John Lewis, the civil rights leader turned 17-term congressman from Georgia, has seen plenty in his 80 years that would test one’s faith in the long fight.

As a young man, Lewis, the third of 10 children from a sharecropping family in Alabama, led sit-ins to integrate lunch counters in Nashville, marched with Martin Luther King, and was beaten by the Klan as part of the Freedom Riders in the South Carolina; he’s been arrested over 40 times, five as a legislator, and spent months in jail.

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